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...cable and DBS can't ignore the digital future. So they'll probably have to upgrade eventually to support digital traffic--although the additional bandwidth will cut into the number of channels they can offer--while cable services like HBO retool to produce digital shows. A few years hence, your local cable or satellite guy will start offering, alongside the usual 60 analog channels, a tier of scintillating HDTV programming, with brilliant color and sound...
...Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network, a Website for computer purchases. He isn't discussing his future plans, but the Web is surely central to them. "It is absolutely clear as a bell to me," Diller says, "that server technology and wide bandwidth will transform the way we acquire all of our information and our entertainment and very much of how we purchase goods and services. When you have the infrastructure in place, it's completely transforming. The dominoes will fall...
...well-intentioned as these solicitations may be, they are usually false and continue to circulate widely long after their origin, sucking up valuable bandwidth across the Internet...
Part of what makes him so enigmatic is the nature of his intellect. Wander the Microsoft grounds, press the Bill button in conversation and hear it described in computer terms: he has "incredible processing power" and "unlimited bandwidth," an agility at "parallel processing" and "multitasking." Watch him at his desk, and you see what they mean. He works on two computers, one with four frames that sequence data streaming in from the Internet, the other handling the hundreds of E-mail messages and memos that extend his mind into a network. He can be so rigorous as he processes data...
Microsoft has long hired based on I.Q. and "intellectual bandwidth." Gates is the undisputed ideal: talking to most people is like sipping from a fountain, goes the saying at the company, but with Gates it's like drinking from a fire hose. Gates, Ballmer and Myhrvold believe it's better to get a brilliant but untrained young brain--they're called "Bill clones"--than someone with too much experience. The interview process tests not what the applicants know but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have...